Peter Tamura's Blog

I've shown this couple six times or so and driven significant distances and looked at different areas.  We've probably looked at about forty homes.  He put a listing on his "want to see list" that he'd already seen and rejected. ======================================== ****, We have a problem, ou...

Well, we saw this article and we thought it was an amazing example of how things are handled differently in different states. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20090412_12_A1_Valind871368 Well, for the cliffnote version of what happened, a woman in Owasso, OK boug...

Chip Shot- comments made in class aligned with a professor's known opinion and philosophy in order to get credit. I occasionally see these short blogs, sometimes cute or funny, but really not useful or informative.  I'm sorry that I clicked onto them and wasted my time.  There's a lot of them on ...

44% of Harvard MBA grads indicated they were pursuing jobs on Wall Street in 2007 according to an article by Robert Weisman at the Boston Globe. It's a sad testament that our best and brightest are still opting for a career with an investment bank.  It's an exciting field and you can make a lot o...

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I had no idea how to develop this niche of the market, I thought this article was very interesting..REO marketing is where it's at in 2009, but getting started is challenging and time consuming.  Now that banks are willing to use real estate agents to sell their large stock of homes, you must car...

Just when you swore up and down that you would never do another short sale because the lack of cooperation from banks and the amount of time and effort involved, you are told that this is going to be a huge niche and you need to figure it out.  Right now the percentage of short sales that actual...

 Well, the low end market seems to be getting a lot of help these days.  With first time homebuyers (and buyers who have not owned a home in three years) getting the $7,500 tax credit, this should significantly stabilize prices in the first time homebuyer price range.  In areas like Tulsa, Broken...

I was at my listing client's home the other day and she asked if we had posted her home in the MLS. I told her of course, (it had been in there for five days) and we walked over to her computer to find out why she couldn't find her home. She typed in MLS.com, then searched area and price range so...

I sold a house to a nice couple last March, since then their daughter had expensive surgery, they got divorced, he was making the house payments on his own but has fallen behind (around three payments) and wants to talk about doing a short sale.  It's unfortunate how quickly things can unravel so...